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COMBINED MAIL BAG 001w CASE AND LOCK.

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OLIVER B. YOUNG, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF To WILLIAMr. BLENMAN, or SAME PLACE.

COMBINED MAlL-BAG-CORD'CASE AND LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,502, dated November9, 1886.

.Application filed April 17, 1885. Serial No. 162,569. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER B. YOUNG, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Mail Bag-Cord Case and Look; and Ido declare the following to bea full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters andfigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

- and will occupy less space within the case than the common cord inuse; and my invention consists in the means set forth for operating thecord-spool within the case and in the general construction of the parts,as specified, being an improvement upon Letters Patent No. 314,985.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is aperspective of myinvention as it appears upon amail-bag, the bag beingclosed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective View of the device,showing itsmechanism,having the front plate of the case removed. Fig. 3 is a viewof the front plate of the case as removed from Fig. 2. spectives of theparts forming the spool D. Fig. 6 is a section of the parts on dottedlines as m of Figs. 1 and 2.

B represents the mailbag as closed at the top, and G is the cord andlock case as it appears when locked.

c is the metal or woven-wire cord, which passes in the common waythrough the eyelets of the bag, being double where it enters the spool,passing around the same, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6.

The lock and cord case consists of a circular cup-shaped shell, as shownin Fig. 2, and fitting over the same is a face or front plate, as

Figs. 4 and 5 are per-.

shown in Fig. 3, and within the caseCthelock and cord works areconfined, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6. e g

In Fig. 2, D is the cord-spool,which consists of two parts, H H, asshown in Figs. 4 and 5. The back portion, H," of the spool has cast onits face centrally the ring R, which extends outwardly at rightangles-to the face of said part. The edge of the ring is provided withthree projections or locking-lugs, d dd. Said lugs pass through theholes 6 e e of the part H. When in position, the lugs are riveted down,securing the parts of the spool together, as shown in Fig. 2. The ringRforms a circular wall, over which the cords c c are wound, as

is attached to the shaft m, which passes through the holesff of thespool. The outer ends of said shaft project through and have square ends0. (See Figs. 2 and 6.) Saidsquare ends fill square holes in the wallsof the case 0. (See Fig. 6.) The other end of said spring is secured tothe inner wall or ring portion, R, at 5. (See Fig. 2.) The peripheriesof the parts H H of the spool are provided with teeth ab, and when saidparts are in position the hooks of the teeth a bstand in oppositedirections. (See Figs. 4 and 5.)

In the upper portion of the case is a sliding or looking bar, P, which,when moved to the dotted position of Fig. 2, causes the inner end todrop down, when said end will engage with the teeth I) of the backportion of the spool, thuslocking thespool and preventing the cords c cfrom drawing outof the spool-case. The sliding bolt 1? is provided nearits inner end with a series of fine teeth, t, and engaging with saidteeth is a locking-spring, h, which holds the bar P in a lockedposition, and to unlock I insert a suitable key through the key-hole rof the front plate over the pin 1), then turning the key, lifting thespring h to the dotted position of Fig. 2, when the spring 8 will drawback from dotted position to the position shown in Fig. 2, moving alsothe locking-bolt Pback to the unlocked position of Fig. 2, when saidbolt will be free from the teeth b of the spool. Then pulling outwardupon the case 0, the cords c 0 will be drawn out as said spool isunwound by the cords.

I provide the front plate of the case on its inner side with aspring-pawl, K, as shown in Fig. 3. The lower end is secured to theplate and the free end is provided with a button, a, which projectsoutward through an opening in said plate. (See Figs. 3 and 6.) When thefront plate is in position, the free end of the spring-pawl K engageswith the teeth a of the front portion of the spool. It willbe observedby this arrangement that the spring-pawl K; will allow the spool tobeunwoundpaying out the cordsto allow opening the sack, and as the cordsare unwound from the spool said spool revolves around the shaft m,winding up the spring 8, and said spring will rewind the cords c 0 uponthe spools, but is prevented while filling or emptying the bag B by thespring-pawl K engaging with the notches a of the spool.

When desirous to wind up the cords, as in closing the bag, the operatorlifts up the button a, which works in the slot l of the case, freeingthe spring Kfrom the notches a' of said spool, when the spool D will berewound by cord or cords. the metal case, the spool, and

means,set forth,for reeling the cord within said case, of thelocking-bolt and its spring h, said bolt adapted to engage with thetoothed portion 6 of said spool, as and for the purposesset forth.

2. The combination, with a mail-bag and its closing-cord, the metal case0, and the spool D, composed of two part-s and secured together, assetforth, having the toothed surfacesa b, as specified, of alocking-bolt, Rand spring-pawl K, said pawl and bolt adapted to engagewith the toothed peripheries of said spool for looking it in its variouspositions, for the purposes specified.

3. In a combined mail-bag-cord case and lock,

the metal case (J, the spool D, asset forth, the

spring-pawl K, attached to said case, the free OLIVER B. YOUNG.Witnesses:

W. T. BLENMAN, B. B. WHEELER.

